Background:
Predominantly Catholic, Black Sea Germans from Bessarabia (particularly Krasna),
Dobrudja, Beresan (particularly Rastadt and München), Crimea (noteably Rosental)
and Kutschurgan. Many of the early G-R settlers re-located from North and South
Dakota, having immigrated earlier.

Towns, villages, Churches, Schools and
Post-Offices, past and present:
Fox Valley,
village incorporated 1928. Post Office established 1911. Situated in the Rural
Municipality of Fox Valley # 171, initially called RM of Keebleville,
incorporated in 1913.Liebenthal,
Post Office established in 1940. Situated in the RM of Happyland # 231,
incorporated in 1913.Richmound, Post
Office established 1912. Located in the RM of Enterprise # 172, incorporated in
1913.
For a map of the Rural Municipalities of
South-western Saskatchewan:
http://www.saskgenealogy.com/researchtools/maps/sgs_rm_areas.htm

Books: Paradise on the Steppe. The Odyssey of a
Pioneering People. Joseph S. Height, 1973.
Be sure to read page 74 about "a side valley of the Beresan River called Lisitzkaja Balka, or Fox Valley, about 3 miles east of Landau". (in German,
Fuchstal.)Memories of the Black Sea Germans.
Joseph S. Height, 1979. Chapter 13 is titled “From
the Kutschurgan to Saskatchewan”.From Katherine to Khrushchev, The Story
of Russia’s Germans. Adam Giesinger, 1974. Chapter
XVIII is titled “Relatives Overseas”.From the Steppes to the Prairies.
Msgr. George P. Aberle, 1993. Chapter XV is titled “The
German Russians in Canada”.

Rosenthal – 1913, initially St. Mary’s, moved and re-dedicated as St. John’s.

Johnsborough – 1943, St. John’s, formerly St. Mary’s at Rosenthal.

Blumenfeld – 1909, first Catholic Church in the area. 1914, Sts. Peter and Paul Church built, now a Municipal Heritage site. The mother church of the district of Prelate.

Krasna – 1911, second Catholic Church in the area,
followed by Speyer (Mendham).

Fox Valley – 1929, St. Mary’s.

Rastadt – 1916, Holy Trinity Church.

Richmound – 1917, St. Mary’s originally built
north-west of Richmound, and moved into town in 1928. First masses were
held in the Joseph Brilz home in 1912, then Haverhill school.

Other Churches:

Ingebright – Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1914 –
1954

Fox Valley – Martin Luther Church of the Ohio Synod,
originally several miles NW of Fox Valley was moved into town in 1941, and
named Peace Luthran church of the Missouri Synod. After it amalgamated with
Christ Lutheran of Ingebright, it became Trinity Lutheran.

Fox Valley – Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 1915,
originally built southeast of Fox Valley, and moved into town in 1932.

Early settlers:
I have developed a database of G-R settlers to the Fox
Valley-Liebenthal district, and their first-generation descendants born in
North America. This information has been extracted mostly from the 2005
Community History book of the Fox Valley-Liebenthal area, supplemented by my own
area research.
Liebenthal – some settlers as early as 1906,
but most coming 1910 and later – Peter Schmaltz, John Fenrich, John Tumbach, Joe
Tumach.
Blumenfeld – Hoffart, Guckert, Deuchscherer,
Drescher, Ziebart, Riffel, Kosolofski, Dirk, Becker, Bonogofski, Fetsch.
Fox Valley – Yeast, Millie, Miner, Mutschler,
Schneider, Werner, Myrol, Ibach. Richmound – Stodolka, Wilde, Stein, Brilz,
Kuntz.